I See an Anime About the Sea

Junichi
Satou (director of ARIA,
and original creator as well as director of Pretear)
has a new project in the works: Umi
no Monogatari ~Anata ga Itekureta Koto~,
which translates roughly to Story
of the Sea ~That You Existed~.

According
to the press
release sent to Moon Phase, the new anime will air in the summer
and follow two sisters, Marin and Urin, who live in the sea and yearn
to try out the surface. (Part
of your wooooorld...oh,
wait.) One day a pretty ring stumbles into their watery home and they
decide to scoot up to the land to try and return it, opening up an
unexpected magical can of worms when they meet with a high school
girl named Kanon.

Oh,
and if you were curious as to what is this illustrious new anime
based on? A pachinko game! The press release claims it's Japan's most
popular.